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鬚

鬚 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. ひげ。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「髟」+音符「須」。「ひげ」「あごひげ」を意味する漢語｛鬚｝を表す字。もと「須」が｛鬚｝を表す字であったが、「髟」を加えた。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

beard, mustache

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • シュ
  • ス
Kun (native)
  • ひげ
Other languages
  • 拼音xu1
  • 한글su
  • Hán-ViệtTu

Basics

Strokes
22 strokes
Radical
髟(かみがしら)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+9B1A

Components

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Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱髟須

Words using this kanji

  • 鬚髯しゅぜんあごひげとほおひげ。ひげ。mustache and beard
  • 鬚鯨ひげくじらbaleen whale, whalebone whale, mysticete
  • 鬚虫ひげむしbeard worm (any worm of phylum Pogonophora)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(12 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-10-12
Four Corner
7228.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
9a13.2
Nelson
5264